You dunk a piece of pipe into a pot of molten glass............
swirl up a parison (a glob)
pull it out and blow a small bubble
tool the bubble into a neck (as it spins on the arm of your chair)
with wet wooden tongs
re-admit the end of the bubble back into the fire for a moment
blow a --bigger-- bubble
drape a sliver of hot glass around the end of the neck you made
use dull wet shears to lop it off
carry off to the annealing lehr, (part of the furnace, off to the side,
made to cool glass very slowly)
by grace of a wet green stick
Chianti bottles since the 1500's
baskets come later
yours scott
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Scott Grandstaff
Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca 96039
scottg@s...
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